Wells High School - Correlator Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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STUDE T ACTIVIVIES The student activity program of Wlells is based upon well-established principles of education. It is so organ- ized that it contributes to the well-rounded development of student personalities, provides democratic opportun- ity with respect to activity and responsibility, and en- courages the use of school activities in outside life. lt also correlates socialized activities with classroom work, and emphasizes intrinsic values rather than external re- wards, The student's day is so arranged that his participa- tion in other than academic activities runs a xvell-or- dered course. Tuesday afternoon of each week is set aside for special interest, Thursdays for social ahfairs, Mondays, Vlfednesdays and Fridays for intramural ath- letic activities. Free periods throughout the day are availahle for participation in a school-service organiza- tion. Democracy of opportunity is provided through leadership of a single organization and active partici- pation in one special interest group. By its program of diversified student activity, XYells High School hopes to develop a body of students vigor- ous in health and rich in personality-students who, upon graduation, will be prepared to face life effective- lv in the world hevond VVells' walls.

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The Day Is Over The school community hears a delinite relationship to the affairs of the Wfells world. Parents are regarded as heing active partners with pupils and teachers in a great cooperative educational enterprise. When the students leave XN'ells at the end of their school day, they take with them interests which they pursue during leisure hours in the home and other places in the community. The parents thus have opportunities to assist the students in carrying on and completing activities which they have planned or already hegun in the school. ln each classroom, there is a set of leallets prepared as the result of a community survey in which are listed the chief health clinics, recreation centers. churches, and playgrounds of the com- munity. Students are made familiar in the classrooms with means supplied hy the community for improving health and developing wholesome hahits of recreation -whether athletic, musical, or dramatic. Copies of these leaHets are provided the parents so that they may know the types of activity available for the students' de- velopment. and assist the school in seeing that they are fully utilized. The parents are truly the partners of students and teachers in carrying forward the work of XVL-lls. A DAY AT WELLS

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SERVICE ORGANIZATIO The service mgaiiizatioiis provirle stuclciits with 11114 portuiiities to render service of Z1 civic iiziture to XYclls pupils zmcl teachers. A CCl'IZllll Zllllllllllt of szicrilice mf time ziiicl eifurt O11 the part of the st11cle11t is invulvecl i11 the 1JCl'llll'lll2lllCC of service cliities. The cliiel' l'L'WZll'Cl is the feeling of szitisfactioii which comics f1'u111 llCll7lllQ' others zmcl iiialiiiig a CO!1II'llJllfll1ll to the living of all i11 XYells. The services perfor111ecl by 111a1'sl1als 111e:111 pwtectiilii fl'U1ll loss of property :mil ll'0lll lmclily injury lll1'UllQll regulzitioii of corriclor traffic. Aceurzite recurcls of ut' teiiclzuice are mzirle possible hy the services of stucleiit 21IICllflZ1llCC clerks. Ill zulilitiuii, service gruiips offer geiierzll assistance i11 the fc11'111 of iinprovecl lil11':11'y service. :1pp1'c1p1'iate l1111cl11'oo111 orcler, effective uflice secretarial service, zmcl ziceiirnte typing :111fl ihipliczitiiig uf cl:1ss1'oo111 iiiaterial, The nucleus of lmmctically :ill clivisioii-1'm1111 services is the Xllells Civic .-Xssucizitimi. All stucleiits are clireetly or iiiclirectly incluflecl i11 the scheme of service orgziiiizatioiis. lYitl10ut their assist- ance. the eclucationzil and soeializecl progrziiii of XY:-lls wmilcl not f1111ctio11 as fully and ettcctively as it clues :it present.